[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa) › [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000) › 8.24 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.24 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 8.24 - **Language:** English ### [8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.24) “ ‘ “If the evil witnessed is not brought to an end, Then unrighteousness will increase greatly So that in the kingdom of that king There will be a great increase in dishonesty. “ ‘ “When a king sees evil deeds being done, If he does not act to prohibit them, The assembly of devas in Trāyastriṃśa Will all give rise to anger in their minds. “ ‘ “Because of that, the king’s laws will decline And dishonesty will spread in the world, And the hosts of opposing enemies Will vanquish that land and destroy it. “ ‘ “The homes and possessions of the inhabitants And all the wealth they have accumulated will be destroyed. If there occur all kinds of dishonesty, People will even be stealing from each other. “ ‘ “Even if he has attained kingship through the true Dharma, If he does not then act in accordance with the Dharma, All the people of his land will be scattered As when an elephant tramples a lotus pond. “ ‘ “Unpredictable, fierce winds will blow; Untimely, destructive rains will fall. Many bad lunar asterisms and omens will manifest. The sun and moon will be darkened, eclipsed. “ ‘ “When a king forsakes the true Dharma, Seeds will fail to ripen as flowers, As fruits, and as every kind of harvest, And there will be famine in the land. “ ‘ “When a king forsakes the true Dharma And people teach a wicked Dharma,¹⁰⁴⁹ Then the devas in their aerial palaces Will be in misery upon seeing that. “ ‘ “Those deva kings and their courts Will be saying these words: ‘This king¹⁰⁵⁰ is practicing unrighteousness And he is relying on sinful friends,¹⁰⁵¹ “ ‘ “ ‘And therefore his reign will not endure long. All of the devas will be extremely displeased. They will become angry, and therefore That kingdom will be destroyed.’ “ ‘ “Because of his relying on unrighteous people So that they increase in that realm,¹⁰⁵² There will be much fighting and dishonesty And much suffering from diseases. “ ‘ “The lords of devas will not protect him, And the other devas will abandon him. His kingdom will be destroyed, And the king will experience suffering. - [Previous: 8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.23) - [Next: 8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.25) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo.8.24) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.24) · Pramāṇa